page_title: Satellite Beach, Florida
section_title: Flora
hierarchical_section_title: Satellite Beach, Florida / Geography / Flora
caption_attribution_description: English: Sea oats (or perhaps some Cortaderia species?) on Atlantic Beach, NC. Taken by Carson Maynard, 04 September 2006.
context_page_description: Satellite Beach is a coastal city in Brevard County, Florida. The population was 10,109 at the 2010 United States Census, and it is located with the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Indian River to the west.
  Satellite Beach is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
context_section_description: Due to the moderating influence of surrounding water bodies, the climate on the barrier island supports tropical species of plants normally found far to the south.  Brevard County's barrier island to, approximately, Cape Canaveral, constitutes the northernmost limit of the range of many of these plant species.  At the same time, the infrequency and mildness of freezes in the Central Florida region serves to define the southern limit of many plants found in temperate zones. Vegetated sand dunes are found along most of the beach's length and provide the major defense against storm events. Native plant species found on the dunes include sea oats, Sabal palmetto, sea grape, railroad vine, dollar weed, coral bean, Spanish bayonet, wax myrtle, yaupon holly, and several grass species. More salt-tolerant and wind-tolerant species, such as sea oats and railroad vine, are found predominantly on the ocean side of the dune, while other dune vegetation species do not generally show such zonation.  These plants assist in building the dune by trapping windblown sand and in stabilizing the dune with extensive lateral root systems.
caption: Sea oats
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